On Dec 11, 8:41*am, Dan wrote:
On Dec 11, 7:06*am, Sig_ZA wrote:



On Dec 11, 2:25*am, AY wrote:

Would any Oudie users care to comment on their flying experiences with
the Oudie? Particularly cockpit readability, unit dependability and
ease of use, or any other pro's or con's you might care to comment on..
Thanks!

Mark Akerley

Been doing some flying in the bright African sun and with my
sunglasses I am able to read the Oudie very well.
However, what I did do to help, was to make the fonts on the map (for
waypoints, etc) almost double the size. I also increased the default
line thickness, by one, of the roads and railway lines. Furthermore I
have set the navboxes to almost zero opacity.

Screen brightness was not so much a problem as the reflections from
within the cockpit itself. This did cause a few hard reading issues.

My problem, however, was trying to push those five little buttons at
the bottom of the screen. Much verbal abuse was hurled at the Oudie's
direction in this regard. The buttons either doing nothing when
pressed, or blast through a zillion screens in a flash. Buttons need
to be made bigger. There also seems to be a bit of dead zone on the
Oudie for the last few pixels at the bottom of the screen where no
amount of pushing helps.

I have been considering getting an Oudie- *I've never seen one or used
one.

I really like SeeYou Mobile but I sure don't like my iPAQ when it
crashes. However I use the 4 button and the large center button all
the time, I'm not keen on touch screens while flying, they seem to be
too sensitive to make work very well.
With Oudie there doesn't seem to be any physical buttons, might be
awkward but it might depend on how you set it up.
I also use the two pages all the time. *One page for big picture
situation awareness, the second for thermalling, zoomed way in, really
helps keep track of lift center and wind drift while thermalling. *I
love this feature.
I set up my Nav boxes to be appropriate info for each page.
I use one button to toggle bewteen the two pages, can you do this
easily with the Oudie?
Also I don't bother with all colored terrain, too much clutter for my
eyes, that seems to make reading the maps much easier.
I use a anti reflecting screen on my iPAQ maybe that would help. *I
also use a long goosneck and can easily move it a bit to see it
better. *Maybe that too would help.

Dan
WO

I have several months' experience of using an Oudie in the Arizona
sun. I have so far used it on a knee-pad and have had no operational
problems accessing buttons. The display is bright and readable except
in direct bright sun. Adding a screen shade has made it very
acceptable. It's not as bright as the ClearNav and similar devices,
but is a step up from the typical PDA many use.

Doubtless there are some cheap Chinese PNAs out there that geeks could
get to work with SYM or other software, but for me it was worth
getting a device that would work straight out of the box.

Mike